Rob Ragan

Offensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.

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1661 articles

Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process.

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

Developer Tools

Inside DTD-Attacks: A Cross-Language Framework for Testing XML Parser Vulnerabilities

By Rob Ragan ★ 56 Unknown May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

The Backdoor Factory: How Binary Patching Works Without Breaking Executables

By Rob Ragan ★ 3.4k Unknown May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

Hound: How Trigram Indexing Delivers Sub-Second Code Search Without ElasticSearch

By Rob Ragan ★ 5.8k Unknown May 14, 2026

Developer Tools

XSS Hunter Client: How MITM Proxies Solve the XSS Correlation Problem

By Rob Ragan ★ 259 Unknown May 14, 2026

Cybersecurity

HackVault: A Security Researcher's Personal Arsenal of Web Exploitation Techniques

By Rob Ragan ★ 2.0k Unknown May 14, 2026

Rob Ragan

// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN

JavaSerialKiller: A Historical Look at Burp-Integrated Deserialization Testing

DataSploit: Building an Automated OSINT Pipeline for Security Reconnaissance

Mimikittenz: Memory Scraping for Post-Exploitation Without Admin Rights

Hyperfox: Building a Man-in-the-Middle Proxy with Go's Standard Library

Cryptopasta: The Copy-Paste Crypto Library That Refuses to Let You Fail

MacDBG: Building Scriptable Debuggers on macOS with Mach Kernel APIs

Building Emotion-Aware Applications: Inside IBM Watson's Tone Analyzer Sample

Inside DTD-Attacks: A Cross-Language Framework for Testing XML Parser Vulnerabilities

The Backdoor Factory: How Binary Patching Works Without Breaking Executables

Hound: How Trigram Indexing Delivers Sub-Second Code Search Without ElasticSearch

XSS Hunter Client: How MITM Proxies Solve the XSS Correlation Problem

HackVault: A Security Researcher's Personal Arsenal of Web Exploitation Techniques